Gadugi, the Cherokee concept of cooperative labor. The concept of people working together for the good of the People. Gadugi is what will liberate the Aniyvwiya from the yoke of our task masters. Long ago the people would work together in the villages to get things done.
Think for a moment of the Treaty of Watauga that illegal swindle that took away our hunting grounds from the Ohio River to the Tennessee River. Think of our heros Dragging Canoe, the Benge, Doublehead, Dick Justice, Stand Watie, Zeke Proctor, Ned Christie. Think of how they fought and died to give us something to look back at with pride.
Look at yourself. You have a decent job and a level of pride in your Cherokee heritage.
What are you doing with that pride? What of your children? Are they proud of their heritage?
Invest in their future and in the Southern Cherokee Nation.
All donations to the GADUGI PROJECT will be deposited in a fund the sole purpose of which, is the purchase of farmland to be used for Cherokee cooperatives, and Cherokee sacred sites. The TRBCC will manage this project in hopeful coordination with other SCN bands in the Southeast. We also stand prepared to go it alone if we must.
Read these words from the Keetoowah Prophesy:
Upon the creation of the KEETOOWAH people, the Creator gave them mysterious powers and placed them in large settlement on an island located in the Atlantic Ocean. There were other tribes on the island which attacked the KEETOOWAH people, and the KEETOOWAHS were victorious. Another tribe watched the fierce fighting from a mountain top. The leader of the tribe watched smoke from the valley ascend toward the Heaven. The smoke divided into three paths midway in the ascension an eagle was seen holding three arrows in its claws. The leader asked his warriors if the smoke and eagle were visible to them and they replied they were. The tribal leader then told his warriors not to attack the KEETOOWAH people because they were the Creators people and they were very powerful. The tribe came down from the mountain and made friends with the KEETOOWAH people.
In later years, some of the medicine men of the tribe became selfish and used their powers to harm their own people. The Creator gave the powers to the medicine men to be used in the best interest of all the people. Other tribal members prayed to the Creator for direction and the Creator heard their prayers. The instruction was to move their fire away from the island and the medicine men. After the departure, the island sank into the ocean.
The people migrated north and settled in the southeastern part of what is now the United States. Many years later, again the medicine men became selfish and committed crimes against their own tribal members. The people gathered to discuss the solution to this problem and it was decided that seven medicine men, one from each of the seven clans, would travel to a mountain top and pray The seven medicine men went up to the mountain top and prayed. Soon a messenger from the Creator appeared and told them the Creator had heard their prayers and had great sympathy for them. The messenger told the medicine men their tribe would be called "KEETOOWAH" from that day forward.
The messenger revealed to them that a "white ball" would arrive from
the east which would be an enemy to the people. The grandchildren of
the KEETOOWAHS would point their feet to the west and great hardship
would be placed upon them at the edge of the prairie. Their blood and
families would be divided and the enemy would not respect the KEETOOWAH
people. The messenger revealed that a young leader would lead the
KEETOOWAH people back to the east. However, if the KEETOOWAH people
chose not to follow the Creator 's direction, they would continue
further west to a sea of water and disappear forever. The Creator said,
"If the KEETOOWAH people are destroyed or become extinct, then the end
of the world will follow."
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